Crappie's Stomach contents...

[bart]

Just read an article that recommended checking the fish's stomach contents, to determine forage base. Here's a Crappie I caught, it had four small fish and one of my waxworms in its stomach. Anyone else???

[1TIGGER]

MMMMMM  NUM YUMMY , Looks like baby perch and gills were his favorite .

[bigredonice]

in alot of lakes around here, big crappies and big perch forage almost exclusively on young of the year panfish.

[river_scum]

i find small gills in my crappies all the time, some pretty large too.

[dav]

U da man bart   

dav

[A- bomb]

i wondered where that little perch went with my waxxie hang'in out of his mouth....now i know

[bart]

I'm going to try this lure on them next time. Size is right???

[mike304]

i love seeing what they're eating. I was fishing with a buddy the first day of trout season a couple of years ago and he caught a 21 inch brown trout out of a small stream that had 4 tiny pickerel in it, including one still hanging out of its mouth.

[iluvcrappie]

those would be baby perch................. .......if I was you I would give that lure a try it looks about the same size.................. ..try using a Frostee Jiggin Spoon if you can find any...................

[captain54]

I find baby young of the year gills,in all larger crappie and jumbo perch,the smaller keeper say 10-11inch crappie are full of zoo plankton,but the big fish always has young of the year gills in them.One jumbo perch "14 inch plus" had over 20 of those baby gills in it and it still hit a small forage minnow.